Sourdough Sweet Potato Muffins

Sweet Potato Muffins

It’s that time of year where baking of squash, sweet potaoes (and/or yams) and other such autumn treats are pretty standard fare, especially around Thanksgiving. This recipe features leftover baked sweet potatoes baked up into muffins. You can substitute any veggie with a similar texture such as those mentioned above. I like using up my extra starter instead of tossing it whenever I can and these yummy tender treats will help you do just that.

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Sourdough Sweet Potato Muffins

Use two medium sized mixing bowls, one for wet ingredients and one for dry ingredients.

Bowl One:

Sweet Potato (baked, skins removed, mashed) – 4.5 oz/127g

Sourdough Starter @ 100% hydration – 6 oz/170g

Oil – 2 oz/56g

Honey- 3 oz/85g

2 large eggs or 3 medium eggs – around 4.4 oz /124g

milk – 8 oz/226g

Beat all ingredients together well, set bowl aside.

In second mixing bowl, mix together:

Whole Wheat flour – 10 oz/283g

Ground flax seeds or toasted wheat germ- 1 oz/28g

Ground cinnamon- 1 teaspoon

Baking soda – 1 teaspoon

Baking Powder- 2 teaspoons

Salt – .3 oz or about 1.5 teaspoons

Stir all ingredients in bowl two until well mixed then pour the dry ingredients from bowl two into the wet ingredients in bowl one. Stir the two sets of ingredients together just until the dry ingredients are moistened (do not overmix unless you prefer tough muffins with peaks).

Press goodies into the top....

Spray your muffin tin with pan spray. Then spoon batter into a 12 cup muffin tin, press nuts, dried cranberries, seeds, raisins or anything else you desire into the batter on top of the muffins and then bake at 425 for 20 – 22 minutes. Notice that I did not press the cranberries in deep enough and a lot of them fell off (don’t worry I scooped them up and made sure they went to a good home 😉 ) Makes 12 muffins ( I always fill batter to the very top of the muffin cup). You know how you always want your muffins to turn out billowy, soft and tender, with a gentle sweetness and delicious smell… well here they are, you won’t be disappointed. Just make sure not to over bake.